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The Sage System Sage? Python Freedom! Community Development model Some useful features The Sage system Franco Saliola Nicolas M. Thiéry With slides from Franco Saliola, Florent Hivert, Dan Drake, William Stein, ... Université du Québec à Montréal Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay, Université Paris Sud Sage Days 30, Acadia University, 02/05/2011 _ α1 _ α2 _ α0 1/46 Sage? Python Freedom! Community Development model Some useful features Outline 1 Sage? 2 Python 3 Freedom! 4 Community 5 Development model 6 Some useful features 2/46 Sage? Python Freedom! Community Development model Some useful features Sage? 3/46 . and more! Sage? Python Freedom! Community Development model Some useful features Sage is a distribution of open source software Software included in Sage: ATLAS Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software BLAS Basic Fortan 77 linear algebra routines Bzip2 High-quality data compressor Cddlib Double Description Method of Motzkin Common Lisp Multi-paradigm and general-purpose programming lang. CVXOPT Convex optimization, linear programming, least squares Cython C-Extensions for Python F2c Converts Fortran 77 to C code Flint Fast Library for Number Theory FpLLL Euclidian lattice reduction FreeType A Free, High-Quality, and Portable Font Engine 4/46 . and more! Sage? Python Freedom! Community Development model Some useful features Sage is a distribution of open source software Software included in Sage: G95 Open source Fortran 95 compiler GAP Groups, Algorithms, Programming GD Dynamic graphics generation tool Genus2reduction Curve data computation Gfan Gröbner fans and tropical varieties Givaro C++ library for arithmetic and algebra GMP GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library GMP-ECM Elliptic Curve Method for Integer Factorization GNU TLS Secure networking GSL Gnu Scientic Library JsMath JavaScript implementation of LaTeX 4/46 . and more! Sage? Python Freedom! Community Development model Some useful features Sage is a distribution of open source software Software included in Sage: IML Integer Matrix Library IPython Interactive Python shell LAPACK Fortan 77 linear algebra library Lcalc L-functions calculator Libgcrypt General purpose cryptographic library Libgpg-error Common error values for GnuPG components Linbox C++ linear algebra library Matplotlib Python plotting library Maxima computer algebra system Mercurial Revision control system MoinMoin Wiki 4/46 . and more! Sage? Python Freedom! Community Development model Some useful features Sage is a distribution of open source software Software included in Sage: MPFI Multiple Precision Floating-point Interval library MPFR C library for multiple-precision oating-point computations ECLib Cremona's Programs for Elliptic curves NetworkX Graph theory NTL Number theory C++ library Numpy Numerical linear algebra OpenCDK Open Crypto Development Kit PALP A Package for Analyzing Lattice Polytopes PARI/GP Number theory calculator Pexpect Pseudo-tty control for Python PNG Bitmap image support 4/46 . and more! Sage? Python Freedom! Community Development model Some useful features Sage is a distribution of open source software Software included in Sage: PolyBoRi Polynomials Over Boolean Rings PyCrypto Python Cryptography Toolkit Python Interpreted language Qd Quad-double/Double-double Computation Package R Statistical Computing Readline Line-editing Rpy Python interface to R Scipy Python library for scientic computation Singular fast commutative and noncommutative algebra Scons Software construction tool SQLite Relation database 4/46 Sage? Python Freedom! Community Development model Some useful features Sage is a distribution of open source software Software included in Sage: Sympow L-function calculator Symmetrica Representation theory Sympy Python library for symbolic computation Tachyon lightweight 3d ray tracer Termcap for writing portable text mode applications Twisted Python networking library Weave Tools for including C/C++ code within Python Zlib Data compression library ZODB Object-oriented database . and more! 4/46 Sage? Python Freedom! Community Development model Some useful features Sage is a distribution of mathematics software Arbitrary precision arith. GMP, MPFR, MPFI, NTL, . Algebra GAP, Maxima, Singular Algebraic geometry Singular, Macaulay2 (optional) Arithmetic geometry PARI, NTL, mwrank, ecm, . Symbolic computation Maxima, Sympy Exact linear algebra Linbox, IML Numerical calculations GSL, Scipy, Numpy Combinatorics Symmetrica, Lrcalc, PALP, Coxeter 3, Chevie Graph theory NetworkX, graphviz (optional) Group theory GAP . and more! 5/46 Sage? Python Freedom! Community Development model Some useful features Sage Demo Demo! 6/46 Sage? Python Freedom! Community Development model Some useful features Sage is a distribution of mathematics software > sage -gap ######### ###### ########### ### ############# ###### ############ #### ############## ######## ############# ##### ############### ######## ##### ###### ##### ###### # ######### ##### ##### ###### ###### ########## ##### ##### ####### ##### ##### #### ##### ###### ######## #### ##### ##### ############# ### #### ##### ####### #### #### ########### #### #### ##### ####### ##### ##### ###### #### #### ##### ####### ##### ##### ##### ############# ##### ##### ################ ##### ############# ###### ##### ################ ##### ############# ################ ################## ##### #### ############### ##### ##### ##### #### ############# ##### ##### ##### #### ######### ##### ##### ##### #### Information at: http://www.gap-system.org Try '?help' for help. See also '?copyright' and '?authors' Loading the library. Please be patient, this may take a while. GAP4, Version: 4.4.12 of 17-Dec-2008, x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc gap> 7/46 Sage? Python Freedom! Community Development model Some useful features Sage is a distribution of mathematics software > sage -singular SINGULAR / Development A Computer Algebra System for Polynomial Computations / version 3-1-1 0< by: G.-M. Greuel, G. Pfister, H. Schoenemann \ Feb 2010 FB Mathematik der Universitaet, D-67653 Kaiserslautern \ > 8/46 Sage? Python Freedom! Community Development model Some useful features Sage is a distribution of mathematics software > sage -maxima Maxima 5.22.1 http://maxima.sourceforge.net using Lisp ECL 10.4.1 Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING. Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter. The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information. (%i1) 9/46 Sage? Python Freedom! Community Development model Some useful features Sage is a distribution of mathematics software > sage -gp GP/PARI CALCULATOR Version 2.4.3 (development svn-12623) amd64 running linux (x86-64/GMP-4.2.1 kernel) 64-bit version compiled: Apr 20 2011, gcc-4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) (readline v6.1 enabled, extended help enabled) Copyright (C) 2000-2008 The PARI Group PARI/GP is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and comes WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY WHATSOEVER. Type ? for help, \q to quit. Type ?12 for how to get moral (and possibly technical) support. parisize = 8000000, primelimit = 500509 ? 10/46 Sage? Python Freedom! Community Development model Some useful features Sage is a distribution of mathematics software > sage -R R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) Copyright (C) 2009 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. Natural language support but running in an English locale R is a collaborative project with many contributors. Type 'contributors()' for more information and 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. Type 'q()' to quit R. > 11/46 Sage? Python Freedom! Community Development model Some useful features Sage combines the power of multiple software Demo! 12/46 Sage? Python Freedom! Community Development model Some useful features Sage includes a large native library Sage is also new code, providing new or improved functionality not previously available. 500k lines of code 2500 classes 27200 functions Rich mathematical content: categories, combinatorics, graphs, number theory, ... Many new algorithms 13/46 and to foster a friendly community of users and developers Sage? Python Freedom! Community Development model Some useful features Sage's mission To create a viable high-quality and open-source alternative to MapleTM, MathematicaTM, MagmaTM, and MATLABTM ... 14/46 Sage? Python Freedom! Community Development model Some useful features Sage's mission To create a viable high-quality and open-source alternative to MapleTM, MathematicaTM, MagmaTM, and MATLABTM ... and to foster a friendly community of users and developers 14/46 Feb. 2006: Sage 1.0 Sage Days 1, San Diego, 10 participants? Feb. 2010: Sage 4.4.2 Sage Days 20, Luminy (France), 120 participants Jan. 2011: Sage 4.6.1 10000 users? Funding (postdoc, workshops, hardware): NSF, ANR, CNRS, Universities and Institutes, Google, Microsoft Research, . Sage? Python Freedom! Community Development model Some useful features A short history of Sage 2002: Open Source Computer Algebra workshop in Lyon 1999-2005: William Stein writes over 25,000 lines of Magma code for his research, and realizes that Magma was a bad long term investment since he couldn't see or modify the internals Feb. 2005: Sage 0.1, a Python library linking together PARI, Maxima, Python, Singular, GAP. 15/46
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